October has been a month of some deeply insightful and delightful conversations at the Good Garbage podcast as we spoke to BioPak’s CEO and Founder – Gary Smith and Richard, respectively plastic-free and tree-free sustainable packaging, and Ralph Bianculli, the Founder & CEO of Emerald Ecovations.
Both organizations are trailblazer food packaging innovators with
BioPaks’ latest invention, Beer BioCups offering a sustainable alternative to outdoor venues and Emerald Ecovations ingenious corn-starch lined coffee cups aiming to end the reliance on petroleum-based plastic!
The award-winning and leading supplier of compostable single-use packaging, BioPak was born out of combining Gary Smith’s entrepreneurial experience with Richard Fine’s utopian ideals for sustainability.
Their single minded commitment to creating customer centric products shows – in the podcast, the founder Gary Smith mentions how he isn’t able to sleep at night if he knows he’s let a customer down! Their food packaging solutions have gone mainstream with names like Baskin Robbins and McDonald’s collaborating with them to reduce their carbon footprint
Disruptor and educator all rolled in one – Ralph Bianculli is a food packaging industry veteran who grew up around horse racetracks and understood the nitty-gritties of how high volume food service runs while working at these tracks from a very young age.
On the Good Garbage podcast he talks about his inspiring life journey – how his son’s sudden health issues led him on a mission of working on and the initiatives taken by him to educate his clients and consumers.
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